More details released in case

Kidnapping victim a witness in human-trafficking case

12:47 AM,
Jul. 4, 2013

Written by

Jesse Bass
American Staff Writer

U.S. District Court documents allege a Hattiesburg suspect accused in an interstate kidnapping scheme drove the victim back to the Hub City after another man kidnapped her.

Jacobo Feliciano Francisco, 31, also known as Uriel Castillo-Ochoa, is facing a federal conspiracy to kidnap charge atop his Mississippi conspiracy to kidnap charge in connection to the June 27 kidnapping of a witness in a previous human-trafficking case, according to court documents.

Ruperto Flores, 57, is also charged with a conspiracy to kidnap charge in Mississippi and a federal charge of knowingly ...